US mur­der rate on track for a big drop in 2018

The mur­der rate in the United States in 2018 is on track for the largest one-year drop in five years.

The FBI will not for­mally re­port 2018’s mur­der fig­ures un­til Septem­ber 2019. But based on a com­par­i­son of 2017 data and 2018 data for 66 large Amer­i­can cities ( pop­u­la­tion over 250,000), it’s pos­si­ble to ob­serve a trend.